. ♪ crazy for thinking that my love ♪ >> i think every girl singer loves to sing "crazy" by patsy cline to singing. my dad is a farmer and had a country band as a hobby. rehearsing in the living room with his band and teaching me songs and, we could sing in church and at different events. he would play guitar and i would sing. it was just something that we did together. my little brother played guitar. my mom ran the sound board. i'm really grateful when he included me. it could have been his thing that he went out and did by himself, but by including the kids in it, you know, just really gave me a great start and great outlet to perform. ♪ because i can't make you love me if you don't ♪ >> i've been listening to bonnie raitt since i was in high school. there was a lot of her songs that influenced me. it was the song that everybody loved that i loved, too. that's one of the songs that, you know, i don't know, 16, 17 years later still is an amazing song. and she has become not only just a great artist influence, but a good friend. she's been the poster child for being yourself and being

never would let me shave my legs so i never shaved my legs until patsy cline checked my legs for me.en gave loretta clothes to wear. you wore her panties for three years. >> i had a pair of patees she give me, i wore them longer than that. they never did tear up. i don't know what happened to them. them panties was the best panties i ever seen. ♪ to say i'm still country the way i look and sound ♪ >> reporter: while patsy's lush sound crossed over to the mainstream, loretta was unmistakably country. she wrote what she knew. are the song lyrics kind of like your diary? >> you got it. yeah. whatever i was going through at the time. whatever i was thinking about at the time. ♪ that water you've been drinking makes you feel better ♪ ♪ you've been on that love- making time ♪ > though she and dew stayed together until the end of his life his drinking and womanizing ways were a heart ache for loretta. they also made for some great songs. ♪ don't come home a drinking with loving on your mind ♪ >> reporter: how many of your songs were written about dew? >> about 80% of them. ♪ what's that's w